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Updated: May 5, 2025
She told me the other day she was sure Danny was going to be a doctor. She bases her hopes on the questions that Danny asks. How do you know you haven't got a gizzard? How would you like to be ripped clean up the back? and Where does your lap go to when you stand up? She said, "Ma and us all have hopes o' Danny." Mrs. Francis has a new role, that of matchmaker, though I don't suppose she knows it.
"A charming woman that Madame de Rocheval," so ran his thoughts at times, "though a little too much of a matchmaker I should say, from what I have heard of her latterly; but as my uncle says, she is not very likely to succeed so far as poor Marguerite Lacroix is concerned.
Yes; young Travino failed to press his suit, and a girl will stand for nearly anything but neglect. But that's one thing they won't stand for, not when there's a handsome fellow at hand to play the bear. Then the old lover is easily forgotten for the new. Eh, Father?" "Ah, Don Lance, I know your reputation as a matchmaker," replied Father Norquin, in a rich French accent.
"I knew she had a hand in it," Mitchell retorted, in a tone of conviction. "That old woman is the most cold-blooded matchmaker in the State, and she's playing with you like a cat with a mouse. They want my money, I tell you that's what they are after. I know how the old thing talks to you she's always telling you her darling boy is dying of grief, and all that foolishness."
She marked down poor Hilton last cold weather," cooed the silken voice in Roy's inattentive ear. "Of course you know he's one of our coming men! And I've a shrewd idea he was intended for Rose. But in Miss Rose the matchmaker has met her match! She's clever that girl; and she's reduced the tactics of non-resistance to a fine art. I don't believe she ever stands up to her mother.
And then Bessie, who was an incorrigible matchmaker where Ida was concerned, began to think what a happy thing it would be if Sir Vernon Palliser were to fall in love with his cousin, and incontinently propose to make her mistress of this delightful place near Petersfield. They all walked back to Kingthorpe together, and parted at the Homestead gate.
Edward Hugh Bloomfield. That gentleman, coming up the river in his boat, had captured the truant canoe, and divining what had happened, had thought to steal a march upon Miss Hazeltine at her sketch. He had unexpectedly brought down two birds with one stone; and as he looked upon the pair of flushed and breathless culprits, the pleasant human instinct of the matchmaker softened his heart.
There was not a marriageable young girl who was not a little in love with him, and their mothers envied the luck of the Tzigana. "It is astonishing how jealous the mammas are," said the Baroness, gayly. "They will make me pay dearly for having been the matchmaker; but I am proud of it, very proud. Zilah has good taste, that is all.
He simply mentioned this by way of suggestion, and invited the opinion of his host. "Well, now, Don Alejandro," said the old matchmaker, in flutelike tones, "we are a very simple people here at Las Palomas. Breeding a few horses and mules for home purposes, and the rearing of cattle has been our occupation.
Lawrence approved heartily of the whist party, and assured Mrs Keswick that she was his guardian angel. "Not much of that," she said, "but I have been told often enough that I'm a regular old matchmaker, and I expect I am." "If you make this match," said Lawrence, "you will have my eternal gratitude."
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